Imagine alternative life paths (Exercise)

• You will need: pen and paper
• Estimated time: 15 minutes

Task description

Take a paper and draw a horizontal line at the bottom of the paper that would symbolize the progress of time (similar to a Life Graph, a tool often used in therapy and counselling).  At the beginning of the timeline is your birth and childhood, then comes adolescence, young adulthood and adulthood. Think about your life, your journey and development, and come up with ideas about what would have been different through your childhood, adolescence and development, if you were a person identifying as LGBTQI+?  Write  every new idea that comes up along the timeline to where it belongs.

If you are identifying as LGBTQI+, you can also choose an other alternative LGBTQI+ identity for the sake of this task.